PLATTSSlOUTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THURSDAY. JULY 20, 19lt.
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'Cbz plattsmoutb 'Journal
I'IBLISHKD S K M I -XV K EKLY AT l'LATTSMOl Til, NEBRASKA.
Entered at Postoffice at Plattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mail matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
SCBSCRirTIOX TRICE! Sl-0 FEU VEAR - IS ADVANCE
THOUGHT FOK TODAY
i A man is turned into a seni-
blance cf the idol he worship:..
A. T. Pierson.
,Tr..T. .r..'-.r.r ??.t.
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Monday, September 4, is Labor day.
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Cut the weeds ami save a doctor
bill.
One observant woman may be a
whole public opinion in herself.
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This year of llK' will be another
I aimer crop year for Nebraska.
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The .-bop boys will make a success
f "Flag day" at the shops, Sc teni-
I I r 4.
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We arc :.'A I'.r "Home Coning"
twek. and i r t ' - to make it !!g
: ll.'iOSS.
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Everybody is arranging to come
t Plattsmouth during "Home Com
ing" week.
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There are these who are handicap
ped by their friends more than by
their enemies.
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!'!:( vorst of it is, we will ret no
lvdit it even if we do have to gj
in 'am. cYan u Mexico.
Any! ody who can get ti.e solid
'.ipp : t T the fault finders oughi. to
K tl-'i'cd by a .-afe majo:it
The coin crop needs rain, but is
ma burning." as ycl Hut it can't
:-tand the excessive heat much longer.
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I ere is a b-.a.i i new question that
r.::i he inti v-i:r 5 to spring right
now. Well, i- it warm enough for
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The pi inter sho set it "liighei of
ficial densily await returns" wassn
far off in these trying times of busi
ness. -:o:-
The old-fashioned sailing ve.-scl is
once more plowing the seas ami a
new crop of nautical yarns may be
the result.
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The man who invented a rr.uffler
for street car wheels has done a great
set-vice for humanity if his device
i- a success.
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There probably never would have
I ecu such in Hesitation over bathing
Miits if the men had looked present
aide in them.
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The man who respects the rights
oi the other.; experiences little dif
ficulty in securing the consideration
rue himself, but the wolf generally
j.ets his due.
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Somebody ought to tell the Rus-slan.-;
to call a hi.lt. If they capture ali
the Austrian the Italian;-, won't have
:ny excuse to offer why they don't
overrun the Trention.
An Indiana man asks a divorce do
:( on the ground that his wife
oews tobacco, a habit which he prob
: ldy regarded during courtship as a
very cute and distinct little manner
ism. :o:-
Yes, the weather .vavr: no
question about that. The evidence i.
ti -ttiiibtakable. But did it -2cr occur
to you that July is a month in which
v.e larely have big snows'rms?"
' In't worry about anything," al-
if-cs John D. Roekerfelle.- But the
udvise doesn't so far enough. Also
ooii't set s'ck,-don't meet v:i any
dents, don't lose in ar.e imn-jr
t ;ut undertaking, cn't fail to make
1 j- o; of its, oon't go era..'-. By ob-:--.;;iig
these shnpl pree iutic :i i
n:uJ, more can be goien o::t of life
as ai- journey along.
A WORD FOK FATiiiSII
The editor of the Inc-'anapolis
Xewt thus rushes to the defense of
.'he i'.owntiodden father: Wi.e:: a man
.ii.;ceeds in living a good or usefu
life that fact is usually attributed to
the influence of a mother. When men
talk of days past no word brings
forth more treasured memories than
"mother." When a lawyer wishes to
arouse a jury's compassion for a
client he invariably speaks of the ef
fects of conviction on the mother
Poets, dramatists and fiction writers
ct all ages have united in honoring
her name. Pays have been set aside in
hrr honor, pensions are given her,
flowers named for her, societies
founded for her. All this is well. The
world would be a sorry world, in
deed, if it were not so. But is there
not danger of father being overlooked
in the shuffle? The average father
succeeds pretty well in discharging
his duty to society. He labors along
persistently and quietly for six days
a week that his family may be pro
vided for; he stands between his fam
ily and the world, shouldering the re
sponsibility of the rent, the taxes,
the grocery and the coal bills; he ad
monishes the boy and advises mother,
peeking always to make their burden
lighter; he works unceasingly, with
out complaint, fighting, scheming,
suffering to the end that his family
may be assured comfort and inde
pendence. In this he sometimes fails,
but he keeps on trying, cheerfully,
i-tcl'dly. stubbornly plunging along to
the end. The sacrifices that mu?t be
rr.-.i'Ie he makes willirgly. The boy
must go to college and the girl must
have music lessons; something must
be cut, and usually it is some luxury
of father's that perishes by the way
side. He is not so poetical a figure as
mother, not so demonstrative in his
affections, so elated in pleasure, so
depressed in grief. And yet many
will remember a kind word here, or
a thoughtful act there, that stands
tut, clear and distinct, as one of
youth's happiest impressions. Not of
ten is he appreciated by the growing
boy. Often he stands in the family
?s the official admonisher to whom)
the boy's faults are related for pun-i.-hment.
On him falls the unpleasant
task of applying the rod; his is the
arm that must enforce respect for
mother and regard for the rights of
others. In this light the growing boy
ir likely to view him with a mixture
of fear, awe and respect. Not until
years bring a proper perspective is he
lightfully understood and appreciated
and peihaps not even then.
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"Home Coming." Keep pushing it.
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The Democratic county convention
meets in Weeping Water today. Also,
the republican convention, which will
occasion the absence of quite a num
ber of the faithful of both parties
fiom the city who are attending.
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Piattsmouth is far ahead of any
town of its size in the state, and we
intend to keep it that way. More im
provements will be made this season
than any previous season, and resi
dences for rental purposes cannot be
had for love or money.
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An American advises Washington
that he recently had a talk with Villa,
who, he said, had recovered from
wounds received at Columbus, N. M.,
but limped a little. Otherwise, wc
take it, Pancho is prepared to take on
Chautauqua engagements in the
United States.
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The music of the threshing ma
chine is once again heard in the state,
and this, ccupled With the jolly joke
of the ever present candidates and
with money rolling in for the big
ciop, makes the kind of music that
bids well for the fortune of the grand
commonwealth. Stand up for Nebraska.
Heard on erery-side: "Meet me at
Plattsmouth on "Home Coming"
week, begining Thursday, August 31."
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Let any man get far enough away
from home and he becomes quite an
important person if judged solely by
his conversation.
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When you get too hot and dis-
couraged you can cool off by read-
ing about the floods that are sweep-
ir.g the southeast.
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If a man won't work when he is
offered plenty of it what is he going
to do about it? But that is simply the
condition throughout the west.
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Some men "know everything" make
a big noise, and get nowhere. Others
know a few things and say little and
get to the front. Take your choice.
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Persons who began to fear last
year that the climate was changing
and there was to be no more warm,
dry weather, may now be assurred.
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It is awtul hard trying to be a
calamity howler in these prosperous
times but there are a few darn fools
who have the audacity to attempt it
and expose their ignorance.
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A Chicago music professor boasts
that he can tell good music from bad
even after he has been blindfolded.
Now don't laugh because such a dis-
tinction really amounts to a great
deal. Many music professors, you
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Know, are entirely at sea concerning
the merits of a composition unless
they can see the composer's name.
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The question as to whether the
sharks cat their victims, or merely
bite off their heads, which is now
agitating New Jersey, is not so hair
.splitting as it seems to an outsider
They have to have some evidence in
New Jersey to establish the fact as
t& whether' the attack is by a shark
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or one ot those celebrated (mo-
squitos) gallinippers, which infest
that country. '
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HIE PHOGRKSSIYE VOTE
Gilson Gardner, the well known
Washington correspondent has it fig
ured out that 8 out of 10 progressives
,ere former republicans and 'will re
turn to the republican fold for van-
us and pecuniary reasons. The other
'J arc irreconciable and will go to Wil
son mostly, as he and his platform
ire more progressive than Hughes
-.nd the platform framed by Root,
James & Co. Since Wilson got 7,000,-
000 votes last time to 4,000,000 for
Roosevelt and 3,000,000 for Taft, it
will take less than one-fifth of the
rogressive vote to elect Wilson, and
he predicts he will get it. These fig-
ures are based on the present outlook,
and, like a $5 note, are subject to I
change, as the campaign goes on.
Blair Pilot.
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PREACHERS OF PEACE
Washington officials, we are told,
believe that it was the calling out of
the national guard and the actual
lispatch of troops to the border tnat
called Carranza to change his hosti!
attitude towards the United States.
Unquestionably. The thousands of
egulars ami the thousands of mil-
tiamen called out for service in con
nection with Mexico are the greatest
preachers of peace conceivable. Many
of them probably never thought of
themselves in this role, but they fill
t just the same. They are doing
more to promote peace and a lasting
cttlemcnt than all the words of all
the pacifists, from David Starr Jor-
ian to Henry Ford, could possibly do.
t is worth while for those who imag-
ne that an army always means war
and militarism and a host of public
lis, to pause and consider the exact
part which our soldier boys have
played in the Mexican crisis. If it
hadn't been for the fact that we had
them and showed ve would use them
cn occasion we should very probably
have been in a state of actual hostil
ities with Mexico by now. There is
no way of wholly avoiding the hazard
of war. But when all ordinary argu
ments for peace have been exhausted
the argument of a reasonable pre
paredness to resist aggression or to
assert fundamental rights is more
than likely to turn the scale.
WHO WILL BE THE GOAT?
One cannot seriously condemn th'e
republican convention in Lancaster
county because it refrained from en-
dorsing prohibition in order- to please
the German-American alliance.
The republican party is trying to
1 win the votes ot two radically hostile
elements the prohibitionists and the
German-Americans. One of the pro-
claimed missiona cf the German-
American alliance is to combat pro
hibition. The republicans of the nation may
succeed in winning them both. It is
making some progress in that direc
tion. It will at least !win some of both.
But when it has' done so somebody
is going to find himself a victim of
mis-placed confidence. The republican
party clever (not to say unscrupul
ous) as its leaders always are, cannot
hope to serve both the prohibitionists
and the enemies of prohibition.
One can't very much blame the re
publicans for trying to herd both of
these discordant, elements under its
banners. It is true that the leaders,
in lending their party to the attempt
of the radical German politicians to
punish President Wilson for having
displeased the implacable German-
American alliance, is. helping to es
tablish a dangerous precedent, and to
set up the principle that no president
hereafter must turn a deal qar to
hyphenism.
But what is such a princple to a
republcan who wants an office? It is
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' bi,"iik " noier
than eider down and carrying no
weight perceptible to the office-hungry
politician.
If the republican party in state and
nation is able to get away with this
cunning plan of double-crossing either
the prohibitionists of the German
American alliance anti-prohibitionists,
it will be entitled to some admiration.
It will hardly be to blame for it from
ny partisan standpoint. But when it
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- uau upon eiec
lorate ot both of these elements that
tnov ought long ago to have had a
guardian or conservator appointed to
protect them from the wiles of the
political confidence men. Lincoln
Star
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Good lains all around
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us.
Another big day Monday, Septem
ber 4 Labor Day and Flag Day.
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A woman reveals her age only
when she is very young or very old.
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A western doctor says Americans
eat too much salt, bull it cannot be
said they lack pepper.
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People who have nothing to do but
kill time are sometimes likely to
make a rather a bruital job of it.
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As soon as the state conventions
are over we will compile the demo
cratic national state and coun
ty tickets and run them regularly on
our editorial page. We shall also do
the same for the republicans and
give the same a place in our columns.
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Wc candidly believe this is another
dcmocratic year and that the cntire
democratic ticket will be elected if
there is no mistakes made in handling
the campaign. We believe L. F. Lang-
horst of this county the man who will
permit no mistakes to be made if he
is placed at the head of the state
committee as its chairman. A man of
Lou Langhorst's push and ability is
cne that will do the business properly
and bring forth success.
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Thosc who are opposed to a war
with Mexico have been interested in
a speech delivered by President Wil
son at Washington on July 4 in which
he declared that the greatest barrier
to industrial peace had been the dif
ficulty of gtting both sides to see that
"getting our fighting blood up" was
"the long way and not the short way"
of securing rights. The occasion for
this address was the dedication of a
labor temple for the American Feder
ation of Labor. Though the president
did not refer to the Mexican situation
in this speech the audience evidently
considered that it referred indirctly
to the crisis counseling as he did for
calm judgement in hours when human
passions and prejudices are very
likely to get the better of our reason
ing faculties.
Do you sleep well these night'
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Keep in mind August 31. Tell your
friends.
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- If a man doesn't recover, he can't
kick on the doctor's bill.
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A diplomat has to learn how to
call a man a liar and make him like
ic.
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Talk about it all the time "Home
Coming" week. Biggest event in our
history.
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A ' fundamental ''error is the one
your opponent makes when he first
, begins to discuss with you.
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-American aviators are winning
fame in Europe but then they don't
belong to the American army.
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the automobile can never expect
as many special privileges as were
foimerly accorded the family horse.
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Give a man a choice between two
bits in cash and 7,000 worth of ad
vice, and he will take the two bits,
every time.
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4 f. At , . .
.-viier me state conventions are
over the political pot will begin to
simmer, and ere the ides of November
will be boiling hot.
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Most women are admired for what
tney are anu not lor what their an
cestors were before them. It is not
alwavs so of men.
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If another attempt at rain is made,!
we hope for a better result than that
of Tuesday morning. The ground was
barely wet and that was all.
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A CHANGE IN MEXICO
Certain things are being done and
aid in Mexico that seem to indicate
that the international situation is
i tally improving.
The Southern Pacific of Mexico
railroad, that had been seized by the
government in Sonora has been turn-
ed back to its owners for manage-
mc-nt.
Bullion and ether property of
.Americans and other foreigners that
had been confiscated havy been iv
! limed.
Bandits have been executed by
Mexican authorities for raiding the
ranches of Americans.
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A train load of supplies for Persh-
ing's army, started down the road for
Cases Grandcs, was held up on orders
from General Gonzales. The order
was overruled by ueneral Trevino
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who directed that the supplies be al-
lowed to proceed.
The Carranza government has
warned us when bandits were sup-
posed to be headed in our direction
so that we could give them the proper
ircention at the border.
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These things appear to signify that
Carranza and the Carranzistas have
experienced a real change of heart
and realize at last that they are more
likely to achieve their own objects by
co-oneratincr with the Americans than
l.v onnosintr them.
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But as sigmticant as any ot tnese
acts is an interview which General
Trevino gave out. It is rather remark-
able for both tone and substance. It
is very different from the expressions
of Mexican political and military
leaders with which we have grown
familiar since the relations between
thc United States and Mexico become
strained. Contempt and defiance are
absent and the general shows a rec-
;f; rt v. vni.x. r.f a tviprirjin
friendship to his party in the task of
establishing peace and order in Mex
ico. World-Herald.
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P.-n.-msHn-itinn T.nds it.splf to manv
lines of endeavor, but a man applies
it most frequently to the matter of
writing letters
There are fever people interested in
knowing what makes the price of
coal go up than in having the aviator
brought- to earth.
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The county convention at Weeping
Water Tuesday unanimously en
dorsed L. F. Langhorst for chairman
cf the democratic state committee,
vhichvwas a very proper recognition
ot the valuable services of Mr. Lang
horst as chairman of the Cass county
democratic committee.
Children Cry
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The Kind You Have Always
in use lor over SO years,
' and has been made under his per-
il-z, -soiial supervision since its infancy.
'CCccU; Allow no one to deceive you in tlii3.
All Conntcrfcits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but .
Ixpcrituents that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless snbstitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Irops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys "Worms
and alia j s Feverishncss. For more than thirty years it
has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation,
- Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
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Bears the
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
IC CENTAUR COI
S U FFERING NEBRASKA
We are pained to state that after
three years of democrat rule the peo
Tle of Nebraska are suffering some
of the consequences. In less than fif
teen months just passed the deposits
jn Nebraska banks have increased
thirty-eight million dollars a record
breaking era in all the history of the
state and this in spite of the fact
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that everybody has bought either an
automobile or, a Ford which kept
that much of the monev out of the
I hanks. Seventv thousand new denos
-tors have their names enrolled on the
books of Nebraska banks making the
total number of depositors more than
I four hundred thousand or almost half
the population of the state. This is a
tremendous showing for the state to
rrake when the democrats are in the
i
saddle especially when one's mem
ovy flits backward eight years to the
dear, delightful and luxurious Roose
i
velt prosperity when the Nebraska
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citizen coum go to nis Daner ana
diaw as much as ten dollars of his
own money if the emergency seemed
to wan ant the banker in letting it get
away. So, we say we are "pained to
state," because the republican spell-
binder can't find a single thing with
which to interest an audience this
fall and that is hard on democrats
There's no contest and nothing to
argue about this year which means
that democrats are to be handicapped,
because a democrat is at his best only
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when there is a tight on. Aurora
I Sun.
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our army on me ooraer is seining
down to stay until winter, anyhow,
and by that time it may become a
fairly efficient organization, with
sufficient machine guns and artillery
and aeroplanes to make it apportion-
ally the strength of a modern fight-
ing force. Just now it is centainly
short in many of these particulars,
and it may be just as well that in
tcrvention was deferred
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Germany has been nearly six
months battling at Verdun, without
getting there, but the fact that she is
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still battering is tne answer to tnose
who expect the war to close in a
hurry
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Roasting ears are ripe.
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Cut the weeds and keep them cut.
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Keep it before the peoplc "Home
Coming."
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The democratic state convention
next Tuesday.
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How the rest of the men do hate a
"model husband."
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"Suffer in silence it's good for the
corn," is a hot weather suggestion.
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An optomist is a man who is good
i.a Lured when there in't much occa
sion for it.
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i The ice man should know the
yeaning of dishabile; he sees so
much of it.
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When a man goes out hunting
trouble people are generally glad to
see him find it.
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Speaking of snaps, what about the
Atckison, Kansns, man who o-i;i a
turtle ranch ?
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Comparatively few men arc too
bvsy to shave every day, but lots of
them are too lazy.
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Some men arise from the slums,
make a few dollars, and then look
down upon the source from .which
they sprang. Their heads just can't
hold them.
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Just when some newspaper an
nounces that it has found the mean
est man, someone else does something
still meaner and takes the title away
from him. But it will be a long time
before anyone outclasses two health
inspectors of the Chicago health de
partment who have just been dis
charged. They were detailed to ex
amine children coming from New
York to Chicago to guard against in
fantile paralysis. It was found that
after making the examinations they
demanded pay from the persons ex
amined. In many instances the person
victimized by this petty graft were
poor foreigners who could not afford
the $1.50 demanded of them. The city
authorities discharged them, but that
was too mild a punishment. They
should have been ducked in the lake.
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